Washing Machine, Petathon and Violins

Now, let me nag about what happened last night after I posted and shut down the computer. Suddenly, loud banging noises could be heard in the "yard" (this open air area for hanging clothes etc, between the kitchen and storage with a spare tiny toilet attached to it. altogether, there are 4 toilets in my house. One there, my paarents bedroom, jean's and my bedroom) where we keep the washing machine and dryer. Then a while later, we heard a loud bang and the washing machine died. We went over to investigate. The drum inside was detached. My father declared it beyond repair.

The next day, which is today, I went out early for the petathon thing. I was supposed to walk with Evangeline but I didn't sit with her at the cordoned off area because no other person without a pet was there. Then, after the usual intro speeches, they asked the cordoned off people and animals to go for their petathon. I made a last minute decision not to accompany Evangeline because no one else was walking from our rows of classes. The people would probably think I'm trying to be funny or objecting to the pet walk. So I watched the performance in the hall and then nearly bored myself to death for the next 2 hours.

My dad came to pick me up after the event. We went to ang mo kio central to buy back lunch and look at washing machines at Courts. They eventually bought one later today. In the mean time, we send our clothes to our grandparent's house to wash, then bring it back home to dry. Jean was at school since 12pm. She's coming back at 11pm. Involved in her school's LoveMG concert. Playing drums again. So I went to church later and came back at around 9.30pm.

A funny sound was detected from Jean's violin yesterday during violin lesson. My parents took it down to synwin to get it checked. They took out the strings, pegs, tuners, chin rest etc one by one and tried to find the problem. However, they could not find the root of the extra sound. So they concluded that either it was a splinter inside the violin, or the suspension had a problem (i didn't even know violins have suspensions). So the poor violin was hospitalised. In return, they leant her a new $2000 violin. That's like almost twice her injured violin's value. And the quality is 8001. The highest level for quality is 9001. The injured one is around 6001. I think mine is around 4001 and almost quarter that value. So depressing. She gets to use that violin for the exam. I don't know if it's going to give her an advantage, but then again, it's the technical skill that matters (hopefully). Synwin is so nice. But I don't think I would want to switch even to a better violin at this point in time. I might not get used to it and the pieces, especially czardas, will go haywire.

Just now, I took out the old and tiny violins out from the storage. My half size one looks like a toy. But the strings are still there. Not snapped and just slightly out of tune. However, the zip thing came out, the metal part. So I only have one zip left to zip up the whole case. I wonder how my teacher played it to demonstrate while teaching me. Her fingers must have been squashed next to each other. Then Jean's 3/8 sized one. That one is the smallest in our collection. The medium sized 3/4 giant and of course, not forgetting the current gigantic full sized giants. Is there size 1.5 or 2 for those with really long arms? I think I want an electric violin next time. Should be quite fun.

Jie ying, can you go update your blog? I've already posted something 2 days in a row which is already considered an achievement.